New Catallaxy

I’m going to keep this short and sweet and to the point. The Australian Therapeutic Goods Administration (TGA) has this on its website: It says: “We only register a vaccine if its benefits are much greater than its risks”

Under the Gladys Berejiklian’s lauded dispensations, “Only fully vaccinated people and those with medical exemptions will have access to the freedoms allowed under the Reopening NSW roadmap.” For example, the Monday after the 70% target is reached, retail will be opened. Drool in envy Melbournians. If only Dan was so enlightened. If you doubt that tune…

I was sent this earlier by a long time Cat. He thought it was a bit of a metaphor for the new ‘Australia’. I agreed, except for the fact that three points of the Federation Star still appear to be united as one…tenuously. I wonder which three States they represent? I think we can rule…

I mentioned a while back that Donald Trump while President – and thus before any of the vaxxines had been developed – had had Covid himself and was over it within a couple of days. I speculated that he might have used Ivermectin or HCQ but did not know. Apparently, he had followed what is…

I was pulled up by the police this morning for not wearing a mask. Walking down a lane at the back of the apartment building in which I live, I spotted a police car. The policemen looked directly at me. Unmasked, I looked back thinking I might be operating within the NSW law. I quite…

The missus was back at the dentist yesterday and on the drive back home she told me about the conversation she was privy to between the Doc and the nurse. They were trying to calm her down I guess by playing at idle banter and I reckon they may have had the same conversation 3…

Did you know that by this time in 2019 (the year before Covid), 662 Australians had died of the Flu, since the start of that year? …and it wasn’t the worst year we’d had in the last five. Even by government admission, that 662 “associated deaths reported to the NNDSS, does not represent the true…